Thanks Malcolm (Hope you get well )and everyone for your help!
, I now have a baby 8" Saxon Hubble! It seems huge! 4 inches under my chin!
In seemingly excellent condition, including the plossl 25 mm -10 mm and a 2 x barlow!
Just got, back from the exhausting 450k round trip including getting lost! My GPS phone going into silence on the last leg and only 5 mins of power left to ring the seller 2x for help directions!
With hardly much sleep, leaving at 7am and home here at 4pm.
I now know what it must be like to have a child sleeping in the back seat, but it was safely cradled with every cushion pillow and doona I own...
Large cumulonimbus clouds have formed over the valley and Northern NSW?How strange?
Hmm but I'm going to bed, maybe I will catch Jupiter before sunrise?
(The mirror looked fine but the reflection has aged a bit!)
Will report soon on my first adventures in deep fuzzy space
Cheers and thanks again.
Edit, just admiring the edifice before bed, it starts lightly raining with hail? But no storm?